(The only fragment of tasbeha I could find in Spanish is way too echoey to follow, but it makes me wonder: Is it possible to buy/download/find an Agpeya in Spanish anywhere? This would be a great help to me, and for all of us living in Latino-majority areas of the world; searching for it online, once I got past the various Spanish translations of ancient pagan/pre-Christian religious texts, the best I've found is a explanation of what it is, but no link to it anywhere in Spanish.)

However, rather than a studio recording, this one seems to have been recorded during an actual service. You can hear the priest hitting the hammer on a piece of wood, which symbolizes someone knocking on the door of heaven.

(The only fragment of tasbeha I could find in Spanish is way too echoey to follow, but it makes me wonder: Is it possible to buy/download/find an Agpeya in Spanish anywhere? This would be a great help to me, and for all of us living in Latino-majority areas of the world; searching for it online, once I got past the various Spanish translations of ancient pagan/pre-Christian religious texts, the best I've found is a explanation of what it is, but no link to it anywhere in Spanish.)

Thanks, Dominika. Very interesting. Those are "Tentheeno" and the second hoos, respectively. I'm sure there must be Agpeyas in Spanish for the churches in Bolivia and Mexico, but from speaking to people who have served in the Church in Bolivia, they are rather ad hoc, not anything printed. Maybe someday, as the Church grows throughout the Spanish-speaking world...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR1dRVVE-w - the first part is for sure for Kiahk (Advent). But after the hymn which there are put lyrics (below the video), they sing something different in Arabic and Coptic.

As I can hear, in Arabic it's "allelouia x3 Yassoo-l-Masseh ibnu Allah wolida fee Betheleim" (sorry for bad transcription) what means 'Jesus Christ Son of God is born in Bethelelem" so it's from the refrain of Psalm 150 for Nativity, isn't it? As for the text which is sung after the frase in Arabic I don't have any idea, but is it also from the Nativity hymn?

And, to make it clear, there are in recording 2 different hymns, one for Advent and one for Nativity?

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straight after yasou' al masih (the bit you translated very well! i am impressed with your arabic) they then say the same thing in coptic, then (in coptic) they sing glory (i think) to the Son and His Good Father and to the Holy Spirit, then (i think) now and forever.

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The Tur Abdin Timeline - A timeline of Tur Abdin (Syriac for "the Mountain of the Servants [of God]"), the heartland of the Syriac Orthodox Christians, a hilly region located in upper Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates.

As far I know, the hymn varies dependind on the feast, becasue it's a part of an ritual called "Zuhuyo" - lifting of the thing typical for the particular feast e.g a palm for Palm Sunday, water for Epiphany etc.

So I wonder if the hymn you've posted is exactly for Christmas?...

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As far I know, the hymn varies dependind on the feast, becasue it's a part of an ritual called "Zuhuyo" - lifting of the thing typical for the particular feast e.g a palm for Palm Sunday, water for Epiphany etc.

So I wonder if the hymn you've posted is exactly for Christmas?...

I'm not an expert on Syriac but I think the last line of the first three stanzas is "D'stlebt Metulothan, w'ethraham al'ain", which roughly means "Thou who was Crucified for us, have mercy on us." For Christmas, the practice in our Church is to sing "Thou who was Born/Incarnate for us, have mercy on us." I might be hearing it though. :/

u beat me to it!i failed to search in arabic.i hope someone soon will subtitle this, so everyone will benefit.

yes our service is longer coz we have lots of lovely Bible readings, then the actual blessing of the water, then the dabbing (to symbolise washing) of the feet (of all the men) or wrists (of all the women - due to cultural issues), and then we sing a bit and then people collect the holy water.anyone who gets there a bit late (eg. me!) can beg a bit of holy water from the person next to them and add it to their bottle.

then, in many churches, we do the epiphany liturgy late at night instead of early in the morning.so we have a 1.5 hr service followed by a 2.5 hr one!i think we're trying to do a longer service than the slavs!

but we don't throw ourselves in freezing cold blessed water in the extreme ascetic slavic practice, so i guess with that, you guys win the 'who is the most ascetic' contest!

yes our service is longer coz we have lots of lovely Bible readings, then the actual blessing of the water, then the dabbing (to symbolise washing) of the feet (of all the men) or wrists (of all the women - due to cultural issues), and then we sing a bit and then people collect the holy water.anyone who gets there a bit late (eg. me!) can beg a bit of holy water from the person next to them and add it to their bottle.

then, in many churches, we do the epiphany liturgy late at night instead of early in the morning.so we have a 1.5 hr service followed by a 2.5 hr one!i think we're trying to do a longer service than the slavs!

but we don't throw ourselves in freezing cold blessed water in the extreme ascetic slavic practice, so i guess with that, you guys win the 'who is the most ascetic' contest!

Well, during the rite of the Great Blessing of the water we have 5 readings and some long prayers, but they're just said by preists, and a few hymns chanted (but you know, in Slavic practice it's done in fast way), and the priest immerse the cross in each basin 3 times, so probably in the content EO version is not so much shorter as Coptic one. And of course I haven't counted the time for collecting it, becasue it depends on the number of people. But there is no tradition of dabbing, washing or something like that

Haha I liked "who is most ascetic conquest" I wish one day I took bath in Jordan water (I mean after the blessing of the river), becasue in Warsaw there is no any possibility to do it

But I have to admit, that although Divine Liturgy with the Great blessing of the water lasts about 2.5 hour, in evening before (of course in Slavic practice, in Greek it's done in the morning on the day of Epiphany) we have All-Night Vigil which lasts 2 hours (in some parishes 30 minutes or even 1 hour more)

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Beautiful Dominika, I too love them , listen to them often, they truly are beautiful thank you dear.

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A good video of the Hoothomo (Concluding Prayer) and the Final Benediction of an Indian Orthodox Liturgy.

wonderful! thank you Sheenj!

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Earlier, I mentioned a group, "CoptAcapella", of which my cousin is part of. This is a website with lyrics and the production of songs they have made thus far. These aren't liturgical in nature, just spiritual songs, which do come for the most part from the Coptic Church in the Arabic spiritual musical, more so than Coptic, translated into English.

Zemarit Mirtinesh is my favorite, too. Though I have not heard so much with her that also has krar so prominently featured. It's kind of nice, I think, even though I get the sense that this instrument is not among the most liked for mezmur (maybe it's too closely associated with secular music; I don't know). Usually it's buried a bit more, like in this lovely mezmur by Zerfe Kebede (if it's even in there...I might be hearing things).

Yes, our Ethiopian brothers and sisters are blessed to have such heavenly music as part of their tradition. If I'm going to listen to paraliturgical music, I prefer Tewahedo mezmur to Coptic (well, Arabic) taraneem. Nothing against my own church, of course, it's just...well, you've heard Zemarit Mirtinesh!

Of course, there is some very powerful taraneem by Coptic ladies, too (don't much care for the likes of Ibrahim Ayad and Co. in this department, myself; sorry, dudes. Boles Malak is a little less annoying, I guess). It's just a different animal, I suppose.

The Tur Abdin Timeline - A timeline of Tur Abdin (Syriac for "the Mountain of the Servants [of God]"), the heartland of the Syriac Orthodox Christians, a hilly region located in upper Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates.

I found this great recording of the last portion of the Shubkono (Forgiveness?) Service done during the beginning of Lent. This was recorded a couple years ago at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam, India.

I found this great recording of the last portion of the Shubkono (Forgiveness?) Service done during the beginning of Lent. This was recorded a couple years ago at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam, India.

^^Great It's very similar to the rite of the forgiveness done in EO churches also for the beginning of the Great Lent.

With prayers for the official Orthodox unity

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As far I know, the hymn varies dependind on the feast, becasue it's a part of an ritual called "Zuhuyo" - lifting of the thing typical for the particular feast e.g a palm for Palm Sunday, water for Epiphany etc.

So I wonder if the hymn you've posted is exactly for Christmas?...

Here's a video of the actual Zuyoho service done in Malayalam. This was the Holy Friday Zuyoho, where the cross is clothed in white to represent the Lord's burial shrouds.

This is an English Coptic spiritual song taken from the Arabic Coptic Spiritual song. The music is the same, the words however are completely different. Someone very recently created a very different group of lyrics with the same music and same resurrection theme. In English, the chorus starts with "Resurrection is my song, Resurrection gives me life" but in Arabic, the chorus starts "Inta dost el mawta wahdack, ya Yasou el Nasiree" (You trampled death alone, oh Jesus of Nazereth)

Actually this melody is very well known from Middle East to Balkans (including Serbia ). And every nation claims its own original melody There is even a movie about it "Whose is this melody?" (I don't know if it's the exact name of this film in English). For example:

Hmm. And the same melody reappears for other English texts of the Church, like "Very Early Sunday Morning", which shares the same chorus as the English version posted by Mina (which I'd never heard before; very interesting), but has obviously different verses. I've also heard the same melody sung in very different contexts by both Syriac and Arab Iraqis...

Anyway...paging Hiwot, Ergib, or any other Tewahedo members we might have left: Gurage Muslim superstar Mahmoud Ahmed apparently sings Tewahedo mezmur now? Just what is going on here? Is it common for Muslims to sing Orthodox mezmur? I wouldn't think so...the closest I've ever seen from Egypt is when Abdel Halim Hafez sang "El Masih", which is obviously much more of a political song than a religious one. And I seem to remember when the film "Hassan w Marqos" came out a few years ago, there was controversy and some people accused its star Adel Imam of converting to Christianity (and/or promoting conversion to it) just for acting in the role of a Coptic priest in a movie that was meant to reduce tensions between Copts and Muslims. So when I see/hear things like the above videos...wow...Ethiopia is blessed!

Actually this melody is very well known from Middle East to Balkans (including Serbia ). And every nation claims its own original melody There is even a movie about it "Whose is this melody?" (I don't know if it's the exact name of this film in English). For example:

He converted to Christianity a few years ago. A sensation at the time. God willing when I get the time I will try to translate that mezmur he is singing.

Beautiful hymns everyone. Thank you for sharing.

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